BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia stated the board stays dedicated to selling girls’s red-ball cricket and is working in direction of rising the variety of Check matches and multi-day video games within the home circuit. Talking after India’s report chase towards Australia within the Girls’s ODI World Cup semi-final, Saikia praised the group led by Harmanpreet Kaur for his or her exceptional efficiency and stated the rising help for girls’s cricket is clear. “The BCCI is firmly dedicated in direction of rising the variety of Check matches for girls in addition to rising the amount of multi-day video games on the home degree,” Saikia instructed PTI. “Principally, girls are taking part in extra white ball cricket — T20Is and ODIs. About three years again, India re-started taking part in multi-days (Check) cricket with Australia, New Zealand, England additionally. When Jay Shah was the secretary of BCCI, he took particular initiative to advertise girls’s Check cricket. So we now are taking part in Check matches.” Saikia acknowledged the necessity to strengthen the home construction with longer-format tournaments to assist gamers adapt to Check cricket. “On the senior degree, we will need to have extra multi-day tournaments, that’s one space the place now we have to work out. All our home tournaments are primarily both T20 or 50-over matches. Perhaps we should introduce some tournaments having multi-days competitors similar to the Ranji Trophy for the boys,” he stated. On India’s schedule going ahead, Saikia added, “Already we’re taking part in Check matches towards England and Australia however we should discover a technique to embody multi-day matches in all bilateral collection.” The BCCI official additionally mirrored on the affect of the Girls’s Premier League (WPL), crediting it for altering the panorama of ladies’s cricket in India. “When WPL was launched in a really skilled method with a variety of sponsorship, viewership, tv and digital platforms, there was a paradigm shift within the girls’s cricket in India,” he stated. Saikia additional said {that a} World Cup victory might elevate the sport to new heights. “Now if we win this trophy, it could actually undoubtedly have the identical affect of 1983. Already girls’s cricket has made a mark however it will additional take them to the next place,” he stated.

He additionally famous the overwhelming response at DY Patil Stadium, calling it an indication of how far the ladies’s recreation has come. “It was a packed stadium in DY Patil, which was not quite common earlier. It has given a variety of quantity to the long run success of Indian girls’s cricket,” Saikia stated.